- Col. Emilio Vasquez: Your cattle?
- Jed Colby: We got the bill of sale.
- Col. Emilio Vasquez: Oh, I'm sure of that. Among honest men there is always a bill of sale. That is why I will have no concern about buying your cattle from you.
- Jed Colby: We're not selling.
- Col. Emilio Vasquez: Oh, Senor, you are mistaken.
- Simon Blake: Jed-
- [20 of the Colonel's men show up]
- Matthew Baker: Because I've always gone on the theory that I'm fast enough for the other man to show his hand. I could be wrong So far I'm lucky. I'm still alive.
- Matthew Baker: I, ah, drifted down here a couple of years ago. I used to be with Quantros Raiders. After a while that got to be unprofitable, so I came here. But I learnt one thing when I was with Quantros. A man points a rifle at you, you don't have to be elected. You don't have to hold any office. If he asks you a question and you want to keep living, you'd better answer him. In this town Mr Colby, I hold all the rifles. So suppose we start over.
- Drover: My pappy told me, when I was knee-high to a fencepost, never to try to fill an inside straight or to tangle with a spoke-for woman. I didn't pay much attention to him, he was older than me.
- Simon Blake: If a man did only the things in life he was paid to do, he wouldn't be of much use, would he.
- Wishbone: It comes down to one thing: if a man has to fight, he has to fight.
- Jed Colby: I'm glad to see you're all willing to shoot. I only hope you know how to shoot straight.
- Jim Quince: You're mighty well told.
- Jed Colby: I knew you would.
- Jim Quince: You're too eager to send her back.
- Jed Colby: Does that something...
- Jim Quince: She don't want to go.
- Jed Colby: Did she tell you that?
- Jim Quince: Not in so many words. But you can see it in everything she does and everything she says.
- Jed Colby: Now you're an expert on women.
- Jim Quince: Yoy don't need to be an expert on women. All you have to do is not close your eyes.
- Jed Colby: I suppose that's what I've been doing.
- Jim Quince: Maybe so, maybe no. There's a quick and easy way to find out.
- Jed Colby: How?
- Jim Quince: Ask her.
- Wishbone: He probably won't start anything. After all, he is Army. And he is carrying a white flag.
- Simon Blake: That's just a rag on a stick. To him that doesn't mean anything at all.
- Simon Blake: Vasquez upped his price from 40 to 45,000 pesos without blinking an eye. If that money meant anything at all, he would've at least squinted one eye.
- Jim Quince: Yeah, you might be right. Say, Simon, you know Jed may have stayed in that little Mexican town even if he couldn't get that money changed.
- Simon Blake: You think so?
- Jim Quince: It's a town, aint it?
- Simon Blake: Yeah, and Jed being Jed, well, I bet he's having a whale of a time. Maybe having a hot bath.
- Jim Quince: Stretching out on a feather bed.
- Simon Blake: Listening to guitar music.
- Jim Quince: Yeah, having a hot meal totted into him.
- Simon Blake: And there I was, worrying about him. Ha, ha, ha.
- Jim Quince: Yeah, yeah.
- Simon Blake: You don't actually believe those flour sack coupons are worth anything, do you?
- Col. Emilio Vasquez: No.
- Simon Blake: Well, that's what I mean. Down here, you're a bandido one day and a general the next.
- Matthew Baker: That's if another idealistic patriotic bandido doesn't come along and print some new pesos.
- Col. Emilio Vasquez: I'll tell you, we can find out. We just ride into Guadalope and cash them in.
- Col. Emilio Vasquez: My Maria, my Maria. I cannot blame anyone who wishes to be alone with my wife, Senor. But the place, tut, tut, tut. Very badly chosen.
- Maria Vasquez: I'm back now, Emilio.
- Col. Emilio Vasquez: Yes, you are back, Maria. And as a husband perhaps I should be pleased. As an officer I have accomplished my mission. But, as a man, Senor Colby, I am not satisfied.
- Jed Colby: What is going to satisfy you?
- Col. Emilio Vasquez: The death of a man who otherwise might ride away and laugh at me because I cannot protect my own honour.
- Maria Vasquez: Emilio, no.
- Col. Emilio Vasquez: Luiz
- [to his 2IC]
- Col. Emilio Vasquez: .
- Maria Vasquez: Emilio, no, please. Emilio, no.